Nursery Rhymes for an Audition?

[iTaLiAn xOx StAr]

Posted: 1/17/05 at 6:56pm

As odd as this sounds, at an upcoming audition the actors are being asked to recite a nursery rhyme. I've only done one other play with this company, and I was casted as the second female lead (Imogene Herdman in "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever"). I'm worried that a nursery rhyme won't be long enough to portray any amount of acting ability at all. Has anyone ever recited a nursery rhyme or something like it at an audition? Does anyone have any ideas on which to chose? They've even said that it's optional to "read it as a character in the play"...WHAT?!?!? A nursery rhyme is abotu 5 lines long! Are you kidding me? This is so frusterating..."TBCPE" was SO much fun and the age range for "Cinderella" is 8 - 18, so we'll even be able to make it through a rehearsal without someone needing their lines read to them. I was so excited about it, but this audition is making me totally aprehensive. If you do well, they'll ask you to read from the script, which completely isn't a problem...But how do you "do well" with a nursery rhyme?

P.S. I'd obviously love to be Cinderella, but since I'm a brunette, it's not likely. I think that a stepsister would be fun...Has anyone ever had that role before? Any tips?

[cabaretlulu2]

Posted: 1/17/05 at 7:03pm

I have always liked the song counting my blessings from the movie white christmas. or Edelweiss from the sound of music.

[CatieElphie1]

Posted: 1/17/05 at 7:05pm

You should do, like, humpty dumpty, but do it as an evil step sister... you know like
"Sigh...humpty dumpty sat...sigh...on a wall"
or roll around on the floor or something at the "fall" part.
I had to read "Sam I Am" one time for an audition and I was the ONLY one who didn't just stand there and read it....so be sure to do SOMETHING!

[CurtainUp]

Posted: 1/17/05 at 10:55pm

This is actually a very good test to see what you can do with very little. DO NOT say it as a nursery. Say it as the world's funniest/most dramatic monologue ever - as if it were Shakespeare.

[Mr. Tuttle]

Posted: 1/18/05 at 12:13am

Count your blessings that you are not being asked to do yet another version of "Defying Gravity".

This director is obviously looking to cast musical theater performers who can..*gasp*...act.

I really hope this doesn't catch on. Eden will be out of work.